88 High Town Road, Luton, LU2 0DQ

88 High Town Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Luton (LU2 0DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 51 m² this is the 8th smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 28–55 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to D across 9 units on file.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in April 2007. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 51 m² it's 18.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (43 m² median across 8 EPCs). Across 2000–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 17.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £205,000 is 36.7% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£273/sq ft) was about 35.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.